Monta Vista High School
Project Awards 2018
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High School | Sushma | Bana | Matthew | Cho | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Intelligent Decision-Making for Autonomous Cars with Distributed Reinforcement Learning and Self-Trained Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| 5 Students will be awarded a check for $100 each, IBM Award | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Triya | Roy | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | A portable and cost-effective Non-Mydriatic camera capable of taking a colored and red free image of the Ocular Fundus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nora | Beamon | Aditi | Singh | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing Von Restorff Effect In Long-Term Free Memory Recall (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Scott | DeRuiter | Tae Kyu | Kim | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Context-aware Paraphrase Suggestion System using Recurrent Neural Networks with Autoencoder and Quality Classifier (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 5 Students will be awarded a check for $100 each, IBM Award | |||||||
| Raj Sekhar Reddy | Palleti | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | What Properties Define the Eulerian Sequence? A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Matthew Harrison | Park | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Diagnosing Systemic Diseases With Fingernail Image Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and letter - medallion and cert will be received in mail after student fills out the online link., Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| Suhas | Prasad | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | What Properties Define the Eulerian Sequence? A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Jeremy | Tien | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Automated Tool to Classify and Categorize "Methods and Materials" Sections Across Biomed Papers using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Renee | Fallon | Aadithya R. | Anumala | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Insertion of tp73 into mutp53-type cancer E. coli model effect on cisplatin induced cell mortality. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Ramya Ulhas | Chamkeri | Plaque and letter of invitation to Tour of Stanford Chemistry Department Labs, Stanford University Chemistry Department | Neutralizing the Odor of a Cheese Brine with a Thiol-Neutralizing Solution (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Anika | Cheerla | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Deep, Multimodal Representation Learning for Pan-Cancer Prognosis Prediction (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Second Place: University of Toronto "Swag Bag", University of Toronto Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Seung Ah | Choi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Modeling a Bioluminescent LED that Enhances the Brightness of Photobacterium Phosphoreum with Optimized Dye - Sensitized (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Akash | Dasgupta | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Is it Possible to Detect Fake Tungsten-based Gold Bullion with Non-Destructive testing? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Athena F. | Fung | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Palmitate: Reducing Proliferative Properties of Cancer Cells Through the Dephosphorylation of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Ashvin Saikumar | Irrinki | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Solution to Regrow Nerves & Retain Memory for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Using Sheath Cells on C. Elegans (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Prabhat Kumar | Jandhyala | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Epigenetic Effects of Groundwater Pollutant 2,6-Dichlorobenzamide in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Vivek Vijay | Kamarshi | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigation of Tacrolimus-Induced Changes in Fusogenicity and Pathogenicity of Varicella Zoster Virus (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | |||||||
| Chetan | Mokkapati | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Light Pollution on the Circadian Rhythm in Drosophila melanogaster. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Vishnu | Palaniappan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Subacute Neurotoxic Effects of Atrazine in C. elegans. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Aditya Sunil | Shah | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Supervised machine learning framework for automatic detection & classification of Glioblastomas using SVM-RFE algorithm (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Amrita Samhita | Shankar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of probiotics on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease modeling via Atx-2 C.elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Manik Keshav | Taneja | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Are stress and anxiety related issues underreported among Asians at competitive high schools? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Michelle Yue | Zhu | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | A Novel, Portable, Brain Cooling Device to Increase Brain Recovery After Cardiac Arrest (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Debbie | Frazier | Isha | Chakraborty | GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Forest Fire Detection with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Generative Adversarial Networks using Drone (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Pooya | Hajjarian | Roya | Ahmadi | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Wildfire Prevention Through a Self Sustained Measurement Reporting and Analysis System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Riya | Chatterjee | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Genetic Disease Detection in Diverse Populations using Facial Recognition and Deep Learning Methodologies (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Kyle | Jones | Anokhi Jitesh | Shah | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Adsorption of Copper Ions from Wastewater Using a Low Cost Modified Starch Polymer for Water Purification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Ashwatha | Tulsi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Particulate Organic Matter Production by Sea Sponges Incorporated with Different Concentrations of Crude Oil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Joe | Kim | Audrey | Cui | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Ovarian Cancer Biomarker Identification from SELDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Datasets Using Machine Learning Methods (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Siddhant | Rao | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Deep Learning Approach to Breast Cancer Prognosis via Convolutional Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Kathleen | Koch | Flora | Huang | Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Using Big Data Analytics to Correlate Slow Slip Events and Repeating Earthquakes in the Nicoya Peninsula Subduction Zone (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Iris Xinran | Xia | Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Using Big Data Analytics to Correlate Slow Slip Events and Repeating Earthquakes in the Nicoya Peninsula Subduction Zone (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ted | Shinta | Gaurav | Kamath | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | Generating Electricity From The Orbital Ocean Waves (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Fiona Lin | Luo | $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | Harvesting body heat from a chair using thermoelectric generators to power a light source (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jenna | Smith | Andrew Bakshi | Richardson | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Cadence of music to cadence of stride: Effects of listening to varying bpm in music on running speed in the 400 meter (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |